Megan Fox will play April O'Neill in upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film

Megan Fox to join cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

One of the biggest Hollywood spats in recent years has come to an end. Megan Fox and Michael Bay have finally called a truce in their two-year spat that began while shooting Transformers in 2007.

Despite flinging harsh insults at each other in the media, Bay confirmed that Fox will star in his reprisal of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a brief sentence on his blog : “TMNT: we are bringing Megan Fox back into the family!”

Fox will play April O’Neill, a young reporter and the turtles only human friend.

The feud between Bay and Fox began when he cast her in the break out role as Shia LeBeuf’s love interest in the first Transformers film . The movie grossed $700 million worldwide and allowed Fox to successfully transition from appearing in T.V. sitcoms to landing bigger roles in Hollywood films such as the film’s sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jennifer’s Body. But, despite the success, Fox was not pleased with her performance and blamed Bay for some of her short comings.

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“He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation,” she told U.K.’s Wonderland magazine. “He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for.”

Not one to be compared to a Nazi, Bay was less than enthused by Fox’s comments.

“Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do,” he told Wall Street Journal. “Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers. I like to think that I’ve had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.”

This news has been received with mixed reactions from TMNT fans who are already unhappy with the flick amid rumours that Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman (Battle: Los Angeles) might re-write the turtle’s traditional background as mutated reptiles to a more modern plot as aliens from another planet.